Report: Average Old Republic server has less than 350 players online

SN:Although it launched to great fanfare, it's clear that The Old Republic is struggling. Electronic Arts revealed a startling drop of 25 percent of its subscriber base since launch, and has since announced layoffs at BioWare Austin, the team behind the expensive MMO. But, how dire is the situation, really?

I tried it but the cartoon take on what should be a desperate dangerous universe, and what was for me absurd game mechanics, was just too much. If the galaxy had more resembled all the cool CGI scenes with which Bioware deceived the public then perhaps the title would have a chance. Of well, F2P before Christmas.

Let this be a warning sign to all those shitty MMO developers or investors who are deluded into thinking they can create a WoW clone and share it's success.. if a game with the Star Wars IP fails, what chance do other games have?

Bioware should have stopped looking at what made WoW successful and instead making a unique MMO designed to be different. Instead we get a decent story driven game with a poor man's WoW clone for endgame.

As a long time WoW player, all ToR did for me was prove how good WoW was. After taking a year off from MMO's, I picked up star wars thinking I wouldnt get addicted again. I played, storylines are GREAT, voice acting was definately something awesome missing from any MMO on the market.

However, ToR lost my attention. I cant even pinpoint what it was, I just stopped logging in. After a few weeks I logged back into WoW and pretty much played that nonstop till Diablo came out.

I think MMO's are losing peoples attention. At the launch of WoW I couldnt stop playing for any reason. I think the problem may lie in the fact that WoW held attention of casual MMO players like myself for so long that a huge number of people who switched were like me, casual, and just got burned out and neede an excuse to stop playing MMO's.

Gamers listen here for second: do you really think EA/Bioware didnt anticpate whats going on with the servers? We just had 1 big game company ACTIVISION/BLIZZARD release Diablo3 & choose to not offer ENOUGH servers for it, this after having successfully ANTICPATING & offering the right amount of SERVERS for WOW, ??? Does that make any sense??, These people(INDUSTRY are very very smart & intelligent. So could Activison/BLIZZARD not get it right with Diablo 3 after getting it right with WOW? lol, EA/BIOWARE then release "OLD Republic MMO" even though Bioware's STRONG SUIT is & has been "SINGLE PLAYER & STORY TELLING", one of the main complaints with OLD REPUBLIC MMO is with TOO MANY SERVERS & NOTHING REALLY NEW TO DO AFTER LVL 50, So essentially it ends up playing like a HUGE SINGLE PLAYER GAME but with ONLINE ONLY DRM, lol, ?? do you see whats going on here?, The GAMES INDUSTRY is just another CARTEL, the REAL DECISION MAKERS meet BEHIND CLOSED DOORS & years in advance, they forcast the direction & goals the have set for the GAMES INDUSTRY with all the MAJOR PLAYERS(Sony,Microsoft,Nintend o,EA,ACTIVSION,UBISOFT,ZENIMAX , STEAM/VALVE ETC) all working TOGETHER taking a CERTAIN ROLE to bring about the CHANGES we see coming to fruitation now like DRM, DLC, ONLINE SINGLE PLAYER ONLY GAMES, this is the FUTURE they have wanted & forcast for gaming. So a game like OLD REPUBLIC is nothing but a TEST PILOT or a INDOCTRINATION TOOL, to get gamers to MENTALLY EXCEPT that the NEXT GEN will be all about DRM or COMPLETE CONTROL OF YOUR GAMING EXPERIENCES. This is the REAL reason gaming has mostly FAILED to create the truly great single player experinces we're accustom too, minus the DLC or some form of ONLINE REGISTRATION, in order to be able to play OFFLINE this GEN. They(INDUSTRY/CARTEL) needed to BREAK you the gamers/consumers AWAY FROM the, or YOUR DESIRE or EXPECTATION for OFFLINE GAMING , by creating games that gamers would become FRUSTRATED WITH & CLAMOR FOR CHANGE.. Its called "CREATE THE PROBLEM & THEN OFFER THE SOLUTION", a tactic used in other realms of business & SOCIAL POLITICS to bring about the desired change they wish to have. ..WELCOME to the FUTURE of GAMING, they(INDUSTRY) say.

I played SWTOR for a month, finished the storyline of my character and quit.

I'll just stick to indie PC games and guild wars 2 from now on. I have The Secret World to play soon which will be my last subscription MMO. After that GW2 will be released and will fill my MMO gaming needs for the foreseeable future.

Blizzard will be in a heap of trouble quite soon if they go ahead with the RMAH in Diablo 3 and I can't wait for the shitstorm to happen.

It's about time these big corporations were put in their place and stopped treating their customers like crap just beacuse they can.

Guess I'm in the minority here but I love this game. I'm having a blast leveling multiple character's, the class stories are amazing and pvp breaks up the grind. Yes I have a 50 as well and no the end game isn't any worse than any other mmo out there imo